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POLITICAL.

Philadelphia dispatch: at is said
that William NJ. Singerly, of the Record,
Democratic sheet bitterly hostile to Randall,
James McManes, Republican ring boss, and
William r. Leeds, leader of the Philadelphia
Republicans in the Legislature, are conspiring
to redistrict the city in such way as TO freeze
out Randall"
A Washington correspondent tele-
graphs to the West the following Presidential
talk:
The gossip in political quarters turns upon the
possibilities Of the sherman BOOM" His trip
to the South is conceded TO be for the purpose of
giving the boom a chance To develop quickly I'M
der the influence Of the warm Southern sun.
Messrs. Malone and John ID. Wise express the
opinion that John Sherman carry the
State Of Virginia, both at the nominating con-
vention and afterward at its electoral vote.
The Ohio chieftain himself publicly expresses
the opinion that the Solid South may be divided
in the next Presidential contest. His friends
say that during this trip he will throw himself
among the Southern people and dispel the erro-
neous impression that he has no warmth in his
composition. They expect him to thaw out in
the South and gain much in popularity. They
confidently expect that he will get the support
Of the delegates OF several of the Southern
States in the convention. The Blaine men say
that they are not afraid Of Mr. Sherman. Repre-
sentative Brady, who was Mahones first lieu
tenant for so long, and who has been n Repub-
lican leader in Virginia longer than has Malone,
does not agree with him that the State can be
carried by the "Ohio man" Blaine, he says
can carry Virginia against anyone the Demo-
Gratis can put up. There is an enthusiasm
aroused at the mention of his name. Not So he
says, with Sherman. He could not carry the
State Anyone who says he can does not know
the Southern people, Mr.. Blaine's friends say
that he is not pushing himself to the front. but
that he is there and is going to stay. Whatever
work others may do meanwhile, they say, it
will be found at the convention that the Plumed
Knight will be head and shoulders above every
| body else
The Indiana Supreme Court has de-
MED Senator Green Smiths petition for re-
hearing in the Lieutenant Governorship case,
holding that the Legislature only can settle
that question.
The Nebraska House defeated the
bill for submitting a prohibitory amendment
to the people-yeas, 40; nays, 42-lacking the
necessary two-thirds majority.
The Wisconsin House passed an act
providing that persons involved in boycotting
schemes shall be imprisoned for not more
than one year or fined not exceeding $500.
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SOUTHERN.

An assignment was made by the to-
bacco firm of Wall, Smith 4 Co., of Louis
vile, on account of advances made upon
crops Their assets are estimated at $4,000,
and they owe $50, 000 to city banks.
In Lawrence County, KY, Samuel
Smith, aged l6 who had some difficulty with a
neighbor named stephen Hammond, armed
himself with revolver, and, entering Ham,
mond's house, shot him dead. Hammond's
wife and children, boy and girl, attacked the
murderer, but he soon fatally wounded Mrs
Hammond, and as the children tried to escape
felled them both with balls. Thinking he had
killed the entire family he fed to the noun
tains and has not yet been caught Mrs. Ham,
mand will die and the children may recover.
Money sent by John Brown, Jr., for
the earthquake sufferers at Charleston was
turned over to the Confederate home, with the
approval of the donor.
William Jackson was tried for MUIR
der at Falmouth, KY, and sentenced to twenty
years in the penitentiary A mob raided the
Jail, took Jackson out and hanged him to a
tree. Henry Arts, who brutally murdered
his stepdaughter at Goldsboro, N. c., by
Draining her with an AK, has paid the penalty
of his crime on the gallows He made a
full confession of his guilt, and said he was
sorry he had committed the crime The exc
cution was intended to have been a privat lie
one, but it was witnessed by very large
crowd who gathered on the outside of the jail
walls, which are very low, and from which a
fine view Of the hanging could be had
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THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK

The strike of the freight men on the
Pittsburg Division of the Baltimore and Ohio
Road is failure.
Milwaukee dispatch: "The strike Of
the printers in this city is at an end, the
Typographical Union having allowed its men,
bers TO procure work wherever they can get
it The blow is heavy one to the union, and
it is doubtful if it can hold together under the
strain"
One hundred and sixty men were
discharged from tho Wagner Palace Car
shops at East Buffalo, on an order from New
York City
Rumors prevail that the large nail
mill at Bay View, Wis, will be changed into
steel mill for the manufacture of merchant
steel
Six hundred men who struck for q
10 per cent. advances in pay at the American
Wire Works in Cleveland were paid off and
discharged.
The French steamer Cheribon landed
at Castle Garden, New York, l,l0l Italian Ia
borers. They were sent by agents in Naples,
who have been negotiating with several rail-
road and steamship companies to furnish
them with laborcrs to replace the strikers on
tho docka
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FOREIGN.

The Marquis of Lothian will succeed
Balfour IA Secretary of State FOR Scotland
1t is reported that the Emperor of
Austria has privately said that Russia has
withdrawn from the triple alliance.
M. De Lesseps has arrived in Ber-
Germany's assistance in neutralizng the Suez
Canal
A cablegram from Paris announces
the marriage Of Christine Nilsson TO Count
Miranda
In the arsenal at Belfast, France, two
persons were killed and ten injured by an ex-
plosion of melinitc.
The Egyptian Minister of the Inte-
rior has resigned on account of scandalous
real-estate transactions
On account of the difficulty of FORM
ing new cabinet the King of Italy refuses to
accept the designations of the present Minis
tiers, who are promised formal vote Of APP
prevail by the Chamber.
Mr.. Wilkinson, correspondent of the
Manchester Guardian, was arrested at Cracow
hours.
The French Chamber of Deputies
has approved of the bill to impose a duty Of
8 francs per kilo on wheat imported
1t is reported that the Russian Gov
eminent has invited the Powers to join in a
protest 10 the Bulgarian Regents against the
cruelties practiced on the insurgent prisoners
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WESTERN.

States Attorney Grinnell created a
sensation at Chicago by seizing all the books,
records and other documents in the offices of
the County Commissioners. He also took
possession of the County Hospital records
ID. A. West was arrested at Detroit
on a charge of smuggling opium from Canada,
the drug coming from China to British Co
lumbia, and thence TO ST. Thomas, Ontario.
The arrest is believed to be an important one,
and is the first blow struck at gigantic
scheme to defraud the government
A serious accident occurred on the
Jacksonville and Southwestern Railroad, be-
tween Vrden and Girard, Ill, by which two
passenger coaches were derailed and tumbled
down an embankment about eight feet high,
and several persons were badly hurt The
list Of the injured is as follows: Senator
Elizur Southworth, Of Ltchfeld, severely in
jured internally, perhaps fatally; Senator l.
B. Stephenson, OF Shelbyville, bruised;
Senator J. ]. Higgins, of Duquoin, bruised;
Senator L. L McGrath, of Nation, bruised:
Senator r L Organ, of Carmi, bruised Rep
resentative G. v L. Fletcher, of St Elmo,
bruised; Representative J. r. Campbell, of
mCledhsDOTO, utdu Cut dud VI uASCu,
Miss E B. Russell Of Carlinvllle, hip severely
hurt; George Roch, Of Girard, face badly
cut; L. NJ Smith, of Litchfeld, severely hurt
Senator Southworth, who was in the
smoker, was thrown across the car. He
tainted away and had to be handed from the
car. After stimulants had been administered
he was taken In the baggage-car to his home
at Ltchfield 1t is said that the wreck was
caused by running at a too high rate Of speed.
The train on the Jacksonville Road and one on
the Chicago and Alton Road, which runs par
allel with the Jacksonville Road for distance
of four miles, were racing, it is charged.
If that savage which Lord Macaulay
prophesied would one day wander among the
ruins of London ever comes to America we
are willing to wager that he will be RECALLED by
"Black Crook" show, says the Chicago Daily
NecS The performance of that perennial
spectacle will always be associated by the
present generation with the name Of Kiralfy,
for those enterprising managers are the only
entrepreneurs who devote their whole atten-
ton to this style of entertainment, and they
have found no play so successful as the ole
standby "The Black Crock" For the mex
two weeks at McVlcker's Theater, new com
pany under their management will give the
play another hearing, doubtless with the same
result
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NEWS CONDENSED.
Concise Record of the Week.
EASTERN.

The new Cotton-seed Oil Company,
which il TO compete in the manufacture OF
cotton-seed oil with the Standard Oil Com
pany, has been chartered in Camden, n. j.,
with these officers: President, Henry O.
Butcher; Secretary and Treasurer, John Oil
ver
Two thousand cases of measles are
reported in Reading, Pa
A panic occurred while a crowd OF
people were waiting at an elevated railway
station in New York. Two persons fell to the
number of others jumped and were seriously
wounded, one fatally.
William G. Hickman has fled to Can
ada from Boston, after swindling people in
the latter city out of $4,000, by claiming
to be able to make sugar from starch at great
profit
Louis Bieral, of New York. who at
tempted to kill the Surveyor of that port has
been sentenced to five years Imprisonment at
Sing Sing.
Candy purchased in Montreal caused
the death of Rev. William L. Rowland and
wife, at Auburndale, Mass, and the serious
illness of their two children.
Samuel +. Resse was hanged at
Plymouth, Mass, for numbering Richard N.
Lawton, of Westport Dec. %, 1885,. Only the
witnesses specified by law were admitted to
the jai-yard, and the hour of the execution
was kept secret, and the crowd which usually
assemblies at hangilgs did not gather at the
Jail.
Wesley Greer, of Cannonsburg, Pa,
has been awarded damages of $1,000 for the
destruction of his house by the escape of
natural gas from the company's pipes l22 feet
distant
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many years. II throws other AFFAIRS Of the
sort far ints the shade. The possibilities Of
this new control are beyond estimating BY
the requirement of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroads.&c. one railway Of the land that has
ever been considered out of the market
Mr.. Sully and his friends become controllers
of what is probably the most extensive rail-
way system in the world. 1t stretches
from New York to almost tho uttermost por-
tons of the South and far into the West 1t
includes the Central Railroad of New Jersey,
the Philadelphia and Reading system. the
Richmond Terminal and Richmond and Dan
vile properties, the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia lines, tho Central Railroad Of
Georgia, and now, last OF all, the Baltimore
and Ohio And OF all these properties there
is to be made one great trunk line. with 49,
COO miles of track.
Articles of reincorporation of the
Wabash Railroad under the name of the Wa
bash Western Railway have been filed at JEFF
ferson City, Mo. The capital stock is $50, 0Oo-
OO0
The Directors of the st. Paul Road
have declared dividends of 21S and 80 per
cent on the common and preferred stocks.
The gross earnings for the past year were
s24, us, 403, and the net surplus 81, 100000
Stock in new organization called
the Indianapolis and st Louis Railway, worth
81, 000, 600, is offered at Nation. ILL.,, at 10
cents on the dollar.
A New York dispatch states that the
| negotiations between President Garrett and
the Richmond Terminal Company have fallen
through and the deal is of; that a new prop
osition is now being considered by Mr.. Gar
rett and negotiations are now on foot for the
transfer of the control of the Baltimore and
| Ohio to syndicate of private bankers.
The Reading Road has decided to
abandon the Schuylkill Canal route to Phila-
delphia, on which il used $40 boats.
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RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.

The Illinois Central Railroad Com
pany has given notes that, beginning March
81 it will sever its connection with all pools.
A final decree has been entered in
the Nickel Plate case in the Circuit Court at
Cleveland Itprovdes for tho sale of the
road at price not less than $4,000, 0oc and
the payment of the roads Indebtedness.
The indianapolis Club has been ad-
mitted 10 the National Baseball League on
the franchise purchased from st Louis
A New York dispatch states that the
control of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company has passed into the hands OF Alfred
Sully of New York Negotiations with Presi-
dent Robert Garrett had been In progress for
some time This is the greatest and bids fair
TO be the most influential railway deal
that has taken place in this country within
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illness. DR.. Searle made the following
statement in regard to the distinguished di-
vine last hours:
Mr.. Beecher began to fail decidedly at
3 o'clock Tuesday morning. His respira-
ton was rapid. At 4 o CLOCK the family was
summoned. Death came slowly and stealth
ilv. His respirations gradually became
faster and faster until they reached sixty q
minute. His pulse was variable and often
reached lao. He still remained in the same
condition except as to breathing, his eyes
closed, and he was entirely unconscious.
The motions of the right arm became less
frequent, and were finally stopped almost
entirely. About 8 o'clock IN the morning
we could detect the first symptoms of i'm
mediate death. His pulse ran up still
higher. fickered. and fluctuated until 9:2S,
two minutes before his death. His pulse
ceased almost entirely at the wrist,
being so faint that it could hardly
be detected, and then stopped alto
gether. There was rattle in Lis throat,
painful to those around him, but I'M
felt by him owing TO the failure of the
nerve center of the respiratory organs, to-
gether with the failure of the hearts action.
His death was very easy, as painless if not
as pleasant as death from sutfocation or by
drowning is said to be-"
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academy, s4l9a36; navy, s25, 75S. 165; pen
sions, SIC, 2o2, 500; postoffice, SIS, 694. $50;
sundry civil, 81. $50. 400; Mexican pensions,
deficiency. s6.9oo,0oo; public printing, de-
fciency, sl07, 900; miscellaneous (estimated),
%, SOC, ooo-total. s247. 3s7,i44 The river and
harbor bill, which was not signed, appropri-
ated s9M3. 500, and the deficiency, which
did not pass, carried an appropriation OF
s4,275,o2a
ID. l.. Pringle, of South Carolina,
now Consul General at Guatemala, will be
transferred to a similar position at Con-
stantinople.
C. III. J. Taylor, O colored Demo
cratic lawyer of wyandotte, Kansas, is likely
to be appointed Minister to Liberia He has
had an interview with President Cleveland
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sketch of His Life.

II is half century ago since Henry Ward
Beecher, then boyish- looking and aged "a
years, preached his first sermon, and his
maiden effort was delivered before an ex-
tremely orthodox congregation of Presby-
terians in little white frame church at
Lawrenceburg, Ind. 1t is probable that
from the first he gave great promise, for,
after remaining in Lawrenceburg for only
two years, we find him promoted in 1889 to
much better position in indianapolis,
where he remained several years, and
where he first attracted national attention.
His Presbyterian beliefs seem to have
gradually become weaker during this time,
and in 1S47, his indianapolis congregation
becoming convinced that he was wandering
into forbidden paths and inclined to over
turn well-established dogmas, it be-
came necessary that he should
find another and more liberal flock.
Plymouth Congregational Church in
Brooklyn wanted pastor, and Mr..
Beecher was taken on trial. He pleased
the congregation so well that he was soon
installed as regular pastor, and from that
day to this he and Plymouth Church have
been so closely identified with each other
that it is impossible almost 10 think OK a
time when he was not the regular occupant
OF its pulpit
Mr.. Beecher came from one of the most
remarkable and most talented American
families-the same family which has given
us Charles and Edward Boecher and Mrs.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. He was the fourth
son of the eminent DIR. Lyman Beecher,
and received most OF his theological train
ing at Lane Seminary, near Cincinnati, O.,
under his fathers eye. He was born at
Litchfeld, Conn, June "a, 1913, and after
attending some public Latin schools en-
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BEECHER AT REST.
The Sufferings of the Eminent Brook.
lyn Minister Ended by
Death.
A Sketch of the Deceased's Career as
Pastor, Author, and
Lecturer.

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was stricken
with apoplexy at his home in Brooklyn on
Saturday. March 5, and fingered until the
following Tuesday, when death relieved
him of his sutferings. During these three
days the great preacher lay in comatose
condition, surrounded by the members Of
his family and physicians. His faithful wife
was by his bedside almost continuously
from the hour he was stricken by the fatal
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WASHINGTON.

Not long ago Capt. b. c. Milan of
Frankfort, KY, sent President Cleveland an
elegant reel OF his own make, with the mes
sage that he loved him for the fish he had
caught The President replied as follows:
WASHINGTON, ID. c. March a. 1887.
Il. c. Milan, Esq;
DEAR SIR have received, through Messrs.
Blackburn and Breckenridge. the beautiful reel
which you have sent to me. and beg you TO ac-
cept my sincere thanks for the same think
il is the finest piece of work in that line have
ever seen, and the sight and handling Of it
makes me long for the time when / con put il in
use. have no doubt that it will be the means
of affording me much pleasure, and hope that
my performances may do your handiwork no
discredit Yours truly, GROVER CLEVELAND.
A statement of the footings of the
appropriation bills passed at the last session
of Congress has been completed by the clerks
of the Senate and House Committees on APP
propriations IL is as follows:
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Total Of actual appropriations .s247, 3s7, 144
The river and harbor bill, which was not
signed, appropriated s9,9l3, soo and the de-
ficiency, which did not pass, though it was
agreed upon in conference, carried an appro-
priation of 4,275, OH
The footings Of the appropriation
bills passed at the last session of Congress are
ms follows: Agricultural, LOS 80; army,
s23, T24, rs; diplomatic and consular, 81, 49,
ei2; District of Columb a, 81, 265, 800; Indian,
t5, 90, Sg7; legislative, go, 'o1, 22l; military
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It is asserted by the London Tele-

graph that the Russian Government has GER
tain British naval designs that were sold by
Terry, the draughtsman recently discharged
from the Chatham yard
The septenate bill passed the Ger
man Reichstag without debate by a vote Of
227 to 81. Eighty-four members abstained
from voting The announcement of the pass
age of the bill was received with applause
All the Conservatives and National Liberals
and a few Centerists voted with the majority.
The minority was composed Of new German
Liberals, Socialists, and Alsatians
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The Death-bed Scene.

The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher died at
$50 o'clock Tuesday morning surrounded
by all the members of his family except
those for whom distance or sickness made
it impossible to reach his bedside.
S. V. White and E. A. Seacomb of
Plymouth Church and Mai. j. Il. Pond
were also present when deaths summons
came. The family had been summoned TO
the death bed early in the morning by DR..
Searle, who detected the signs of rapidly
approaching dissolution. At about a. IN.
Mr.. 5. V. White announced to those gath
cred before the house that the end was
very near, and even then the sobs OF the
sorrowing family could be heard all through
the house. At $3.50 o'clock DR.. Searle. who
had been holding one of Mr.. Beecher S
hands, said: MIR. Beecher is no more; he
is dead"
1t is difficult TO describe the scene at this
moment. Notwithstanding the fact that his
death was looked for, that it had been ex-
pected hourly, it seemed to come with
such crushing force that the family were
completely Frustrated with grief. They
could not bring themselves to the sad re-
alization that the kindly voice of the
husband, father, and grandfather was
forever hushed in death, and that
they had only the remembrance of
his kind admonitions. Mrs. Beecher, who
had borne up so bravely from the first, and
who had watched so constantly at the bed
side of her dying husband, was utterly
broken down, and when supported by her
son Harry, as she tottered from the room,
looked as if it would not be long before
she would follow her beloved husband.
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The House of Sorrow.

No Grape was hung on the door of Mr..
Beechers late home TO announce that the
great orator was no more. Mr.. Beecher
had always expressed dislike of this GUS
tom and of the gloom associated with
Grape in the presence of death. Instead q
magnificent wreath of white and red roses
and lilies of the valley tied with white satin
was hung at the left side of the doorway.
Many kilograms of coincidence were re-
ceived by the stricken family, among them
the following:
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
"WAsmNGToN, ID. c., March 8.
MRS. Henry Ward Boecher;
Accept my heartfelt sympathy in this
hour of your bereavement, with the hope
that comfort may be vouchsafed from the
heavenly source you know so well.
"GRovER CLEVELAND"
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The present style of ladies' hats is
so tall that it is said they are felt on
high.
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His Desire Was tn Continue Preaching.
Bismarck OAK special

When Henry Ward Beecher stopped
here on his Northwestern lecture tour three
years ago he said in one interview in an
swer to the question as to when he in
tended retiring from the pulpit and the
lecture field: Il intend to preach for fifteen
years, for believe that retirement from
active work would hasten DEATH" He
further stated that in his opinion if his
father had not retired when he did he would
have lived fifteen years longer. When
here Mr.. Beecher was accompanied by
J. Il. Pond, the business manager OF the
tour, and Pond told many interesting
stories of the pranks and evidences OF
youthful humor of the great divine. Among
other things he gave representative of q
Bismarck paper note written by Mr..
Beecher while in jamestown. Mr.. Beecher
had been annoyed along his journey by in
vitations and demands for him to preach,
and going into Ponds room at the hotel in
jamestown he wrote the following:
"DEAR SIR-You ask me to preach for
you. am O lecturer, not a preacher; you
have barked mp the wrong tree. I'll be
id before shall preach for you.
-. b. Pond"
The note was written by Mr.. Beecher and
left on Mr.. Ponds table.